Leadership

The World's Essential Rule-Making Body for the Banking Industry

The Advisory Board - comprised of 12 Board Members, all senior executives from the industry or related fields. This Board responds to increased policy, regulatory and market requests for greater transparency and standardization of trade finance products.

The Executive Committee - comprised of 8 Officers, each supervising a specific line of service. This change at the very top of a commission was the occasion to add new members in order to align the commission's resources to new mandates and meet the aspirations of the renewed membership.

Chair of the ICC Banking Commission

Daniel SCHMAND

Daniel Schmand is Deutsche Bank’s Head of Trade Finance & Cash Management Corporates EMEA. He is located in Frankfurt and Munich. In addition to his responsibility for the EMEA region, he heads the Global Trade Finance Committee.

Advisory Board

John AHEARN

He is currently responsible for the Trade Services and Financial Institution Services globally. Prior to joining Citi, he was with ABN AMRO for eight years, responsible for Financial Institutions and Head of Sales globally for the trade business.

Steven BECK

Head Trade Finance, Asian Development Bank

In the six years Steven has been with ADB he managed exponential growth of ADB's trade finance business, now at over $4 billion in annual turnover, and initiated the ICC-ADB Trade Finance Default Register, which compiled and presented statistics to the Basel Secretariat arguing in favor of appropriate capital treatment for trade transactions under impending Basel III regulations.

Jun CHENG

Global Head of Trade Services, General Manager of Corporate Banking of Bank of China Group

Mr. Cheng Jun, Global Head of Trade Services, General Manager of Corporate Banking of Bank of China Group, is responsible for the strategic planning and development of trade finance business of the largest trade bank in the world.

Eric DE JONGE

Managing Director, Global Head Structured Export Finance, ING Bank

Eric de Jonge is an ING banker with over 20 years of experience in financing assets, companies and projects. Over the last 15 years he has been involved in managing various regional and global business lines.

Vinod MADHAVAN

Vinod Madhavan joined Standard Bank in Jan, 2014 as Head of Transactional Products and Services (TPS), South Africa. In this role, he has P&L responsibility for the TPS business for Standard Bank's franchise in South Africa. The TPS business in Standard Bank includes the products and solutions offered to corporate and financial institution clients, across cash management, clearing, trade & supply chain finance and investor service.

Olivier PAUL

Global Head of Trade & Banking Flow, BNP Paribas

Olivier Paul Started his career in the bank 30 years ago, taking several positions in Corporate Banking : from the management of mid cap portfolios up to the position of head of the network branches in Paris.

Deputy Director Financial Institutions, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Stuart G. TAIT

Group General Manager Global Head, Trade and Receivables Finance, HSBC

Stuart joined HSBC in 1984 and has held various positions in Commercial Banking, Global Banking and Markets, Retail Banking and Wealth Management, Risk and HR. His assignments have been in Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East.

Michael VRONTAMITIS

As Head of Trade, Product Management, Transaction Banking Michael is responsible for the P&L and delivery of the Bank's Trade Finance capabilities globally in Documentary Trade, Receivables Finance, Supply Chain Finance, and working capital solutions, to all of the Bank's clients across Corporate & Institutional, Commercial and Business clients. He is also accountable for the Bank's Trade Finance distribution.

Executive Committee

Head : Neil Chantry

Deputy Head : Alexander R. Malaket

André CASTERMAN

Head of Corporate and Supply Chain Markets, SWIFT

André Casterman heads up SWIFT’s strategy and business development in the Corporate and Trade markets. His responsibilities cover payments and cash management, treasury, trade and supply chain finance.

Neil CHANTRY

Global Head of Business Policy, Global Trade and Receivables Finance, HSBC

Today, Neil is the Global Head of Policy and Compliance and Global Trade and Receivables Finance at HSBC. Neil has been a representative of the UK delegation to the ICC Banking Commission since 1994 and was a member of the eUCP Working Group.

Rüdiger GEIS

Head Product Management, Trade Services & Issues

Ruediger is an active member in various trade initiatives and headed the working group on the BAFT-IFSA Master Participation Agreement for Trade Transactions. He holds a Bachelor Professional of International Trade & Management (CCI) and is married with three children. Throughout his more than 20 years in banking Ruediger has played different functions in the area of international trade and business and has held various assignments within the bank in Frankfurt, Bahrain, and New York.

Andrea HAUPTMANN

Senior Director, Head of Guarantees Department at Raiffeisen Bank International

Andrea joined Raiffeisen Bank International (former RZB) in September 1984 after a short postgraduate study in Cambridge, UK, working in the documentary department on import/ export LCs and since 1988 on bank guarantees. She took over responsibility of the guarantee business in 1991 and was appointed Director in 1997 and Senior Director in 2000.

Alexander R. MALAKET

President of OPUS Advisory Services International Inc. and Founder and Managing Director of Trade Finance Associates Pte in Singapore

Alexander R. Malaket, CITP, is the President of OPUS Advisory Services International Inc., based in Canada. A recognized specialist in international trade, including trade and supply chain finance, Alexander has advised government, international institution, banking and corporate clients around the world, developed and delivered training materials and seminars, and authored numerous white papers, briefing and policy papers and research reports on a variety of topics in international business, finance and international development.

Vincent O'BRIEN

Vincent is a longstanding member of the ICC Banking Commission and Chair of the ICC’s Education and Market Intelligence Group. He has been actively involved in trade finance for more than a quarter of a century and has delivered technical trade finance assistance in more than 70 countries.

Dan TAYLOR

Dan Taylor is the principal of DLTAYLOR Consulting, LLC. He has forty years experience in the field of international banking. Prior to starting his consulting practice he was Managing Director and Global Market Infrastructures Executive for J.P. Morgan's Corporate and Investment Bank.

Vijay VASHIST

Vijay is responsible for developing product innovation, guiding market expansion and the investment agenda to drive growth across the bank’s extensive client base in Asia, as well as integrating the bank’s trade product offering in order to seamlessly serve its customers across all segments, from large corporate to SMEs.

Technical Advisers

Suresh ADVANI

Managing Director, Insurecap Limited, Banking Commission

Prior to joining GML in 2005, Suresh spent twenty-four years working in investment banking, commercial banking and political and trade credit insurance with JP Morgan Chase, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Jardine Lloyd Thompson and Exporters Insurance Company Limited. During his career, he has developed extensive experience in managing credit and country risk in emerging and frontier markets as well as developing risk syndication, transfer and enhancement techniques and capabilities to manage these risks.

R.V. BALASUBRAMANI

Director, Innovative Global Solutions – GBITC

R.V.Bala is an International Trade Finance specialist and Banking Professional with 37+ years of experience from 3 different multinational and 2 nationalised banks.

Prior to incorporating his own consultancy firm, he was a Director and Head of Centre of Excellence of the Global Trade Finance Hub of BNP Paribas, simultaneously heading the Quality Management and System/Application Support divisions. Previously, he headed the Trade marketing division under Global Trade Services and PAN India Operations of BNPP India Group. Earlier Bala headed the International Trade Marketing & Operations and the Internal Audit & Compliance divisions at same time in Commerzbank AG. He was a member of the drafting group for the ISBP Revision in the ICC, Banking Commission (ISBP.745).

Henri D'AMBRIERES

Advisory Services – Export, Trade and Project Finance, HDA Conseil

Henri was Global Head of Export Finance of Calyon then Credit Agricole CIB from 2004 to 2012. He also managed the commercial activities in Trade Finance from 2008 to 2012 and chaired the Export Credit Group of the European Banking Federation from 2008 to 2013.

David MEYNELL

Owner of TradeLC Advisory

David is the owner of TradeLC Advisory, a recently established trade advisory consultancy. He previously worked for Deutsche Bank in a number of international locations for more than 30 years in a trade career encompassing Operations, System Development, Sales and Product Management.

Head of Product Returns and Capital Optimization, HSBC

Hugo VERSCHOREN

Senior Product Manager, Trade Finance Services, ING

From 2007 till 2009 Hugo was Head of Corporate Sales Belgium and Luxembourg for Trade Finance Services. In January 2010 he moved to Amsterdam to become Senior Product Manager Trade Finance Services for ING Group.